Austrian Restitution Policy:
From a talk given by gallery Co-Director Jane Kallir on "Art Restitution in Austria: Achievements, Lessons, Challenges" at the Austrian Cultural Foundation in New York on October 1, 2015.... Read More
Understanding the Art Market, Part III
Five Common-Sense Rules for Collectors
The art market may be bigger than ever today, but the basic rules of collecting have not changed much...
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Understanding the Art Market, Part II
What Do Auction Prices Really Mean?
Because auction prices are published, people often mistakenly equate them with stock prices. In truth, auctions represent only a fraction of the total art market, and the process is far from transpare...
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Understanding the Art Market, Part I
How The Market is Manipulated
Huge art prices have many people concerned that we are experiencing another art market bubble. In truth, the market is more complicated than the flashy headlines suggest...
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2015 Art Market Report
Where Are The Gatekeepers?
The Galerie St. Etienne’s 2015 State of the Market Report asks who, in today’s increasingly fragmented art world, decides what constitutes a great work of art. Curators? Critics? Collectors? The m...
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Recent Acquisitions
(July 21 – October 16, 2015)
The gallery’s summer show of Recent Acquisitions features works by artists who for years were off the reigning “gatekeepers” radar: Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Morris H...
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“Woman In Gold”: Is the Movie Accurate?
Some Thoughts on Nazi Art Restitution
in Austria & Elsewhere
Hollywood is not known for accuracy when it comes to history, much less art history. However, the film dramatizing the real-life legal battle between Austria and Maria Altmann, an American Holocaust s...
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Leonard Baskin’s “Wunderkammer”
Mid-Century Renegade Anticipates Contemporary Artistic Practice
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the narratives that once structured the art world have been breaking down. Traditional hierarchies—between “high” and “low” culture, Western and n...
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The Beethoven Frieze: A Plea for Compromise
Today the Beethoven Frieze is housed in the Vienna Secession, where it is a major tourist attraction and source of income. If sold on the open market, the Frieze could fetch over $150 million.... Read More